Saturday, October 2, 2010

Voting Begins Today to Pick Nominees for 'People's Choice Awards' 2011Lets get our favorite TV show some well deserve recognition! You can vote for Criminal Minds as best Crime Drama and add any of the actors/actress as best TV Crime Fighter and more! Just remember Vote, vote, VOTE!!

Thursday, September 30, 2010

There have been five wonderful Criminal Minds' seasons. Five seasons that have seen members of the BAU leave for one reason or another. Five seasons have also seen the arrival of new members that have gained the love and hearts of the fans. But in five seasons
Criminal Minds has not seen a night like tonight. The amount of collective sadness in the fandom tonight is impressive. Tonight we cease to be Hotch, Prentiss, Rossi, Reid, Morgan or Garcia fans. Tonight all
Criminal Minds fans were JJ fans. And all Criminal Minds fans had the kleenex box ready for her exit. To say that AJ Cook's unwilling departure from the show is a big loss for Criminal Minds
would be an understatement. There are no words, there is not much comfort, there is just sadness. Sadness that it has come this far, that the day we've all dreaded is here. Sadness that next week JJ won't be presenting the team with a new case. Just sadness.

AJ Cook, you are gifted with a lot of talent and the Knights and Ladies of the Criminal Minds Round Table bow to your incredible grace. Somehow, to say that we will miss you and that
Criminal Minds won't be the same without you doesn't seem enough. We wish you the absolute very best and thank the fates for the privilege to have had you on our favorite show.

Erica Messer, you were, as always, brilliant. Hats off for the subtleties and the respect you have shown JJ.

Rachel Nichols (Star Trek) has been tapped for an arc on Criminal Minds later this season. Criminal Minds had been planning to add a new female regular cast member in the wake of the A.J. Cook's departure. I hear the character Alias alumna Nichols will play, FBI cadet Ashley Seager, was originally envisioned as a new regular but that has changed, and Nichols will now appear in 3 episodes. Seager is invited by Agent Hotch (Thomas Gibson) to consult on a case after learning her family history will bring a unique insight into the mind of a serial killer.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

On Wednesday's episode of Criminal Minds the members of Behavioral Analysis Unit — and viewers — will say goodbye to Agent Jennifer Jareau.

JJ's exit comes after CBS abruptly let A J Cook go for creative reasons during the break between seasons.

"It is like losing a member of the family very suddenly and without any warning. That's always difficult," castmate Thomas Gibson tells TVGuide.com. "Everybody is still mystified and always be as to the reasons for this. I don't understand it, and I'll never pretend to understand why they had to do it. But it's a huge loss and it there's now a void there."

JJ's exit will come as she and the team tries to reunite a family whose daughter has mysteriously disappeared. "We've always intimated that JJ's character has connections outside of our world — other more powerful elements in the government," executive producer Simon Mirren tells us. "Those powers that she's connected with come back into her life. So basically, what we're saying is, our loss is going to be someone else's gain.

"You see how the characters are in control of the cases and the people they go after," Mirren adds. "But outside of that they realize that the FBI and the powers that be are more powerful than they are."

With JJ seemingly on to bigger and better things, the focus will be on how the team reacts to being a man down. "Quite often after any show loses a big star, you see a spike [in interest] after their exit because the fans want to know how the family will cope with that loss," Mirren says. "So that's our main focus at the moment: to deal with that loss and how our main characters react to it. You get a lot of story from that, and your hand is sort of forced to see those characters' lives more."

Gibson says the real-life emotion surrounding Cook's exit will be mirrored on the show. "It was an interesting challenge and an interesting show to shoot," he says. "We're just trying to keep the ball in the air ourselves. We tried to integrate a little bit of what was happening in reality into the show. We didn't try to neatly wrap up something that we didn't feel could be neatly wrapped up."
And while the plan is ultimately to bring in a new team member, don't look for it anytime soon. "The team has a choice to replace her or not. That's one of the surprises that people don't know about," Mirren says. "Our family has lost a member, and they're irreplaceable. But also somebody has to do that job [as communications liaison]."

"Even if they were to bring somebody else on in the future, the space left by her character is obviously never going to be filled," Gibson adds. "We miss her a lot, and we were lucky to have the time with her when we did."

"JJ" — While JJ attempts to reunite a family whose daughter has mysteriously disappeared, her BAU family braces for the loss of one of their own, on CRIMINAL MINDS, Wednesday, Sept. 29 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Gil Bellows ("Ally McBeal") and his real-life wife, Rya Kihlstedt, guest star as Jeff and Patty Joyce, the distraught parents of the missing girl.

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INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the Criminal Minds Round Table. When we were positing names for this blog, and Sir Bedivere suggested Criminal Minds Round Table, we knew immediately that was the perfect name for our blog.

It fit in so many ways.

Many fans, and Ed Bernero (Criminal Minds' former Showrunner and Executive Producer) himself, compare the show and its characters to The Arthurian Legend and the Knights of the Round Table. Mr. Bernero even went so far as to say that he knew that the stories had to be “Arthurian” to appeal to the most people. The team meets to brief cases at a round table, and there are many parallels between our BAU team and the Knights and other Arthurian characters.

In addition, a Round Table discussion is what we want to have here about any and all topics Criminal Minds-related. In a Round Table discussion, each participant has equal status and equal time to present views. And finally, since this is going to be a group effort amongst a group of Criminal Minds fans, we are going to take turns around the table, with each of us posting about the show, our favorite characters and our favorite actors on the show.